This tutorial Tuesday's tutorial almost made it to Wednesday. lol! This is for the Ruffled Posie Belt. You can view it in cotton here. I recommend using cotton to make this. The fabric I used for this tutorial didn't ruffle up on the elastic very well, it was too stiff.
Supplies needed:
12" of 44" fabric
2" piece of velcro
Bottle opener belt buckle (I bought mine here)
felt
thread
elastic
Here we go...
First you will cut 3: 4" strips of fabric. Two are for the belt and the other one is for the posie.
your 3 strips...
cut elastic to fit your child or your waist...I used 1" elastic...
put the right sides of two of the strips of fabric together and sew the edges leaving the ends open...
iron the edges...
using this handy dandy little ruler with a slider, measure your elastic width...
then using the same ruler you figure out where you want your elastic in the middle, you will sew two seams to feed the elastic thru...
using a safety pin, feed the elastic thru the casing on the belt...
pin the end of the elastic so you don't pull it out when you are feeding the elastic thru...
now it's time to add the belt buckle...make sure you have the buckles turned to the right sides before you sew them on...
the back of each buckle has "left" and "right" on them...
pull one end thru the belt buckle...
and sew it down...
do the other end making sure to check that you have the buckle on the right side and you will have this...
now it's time for the posie...you should have one 4" piece of fabric left. Fold it in half, we're going to ruffle it on the raw edge.
instead of doing a basting stitch and pulling the thread to ruffle (and risk the thread breaking and sending you into hysterics) I like to "manually" ruffle it. Pinch the fabric up as it goes under the needle...
here's what it will look like when you get it ruffled..
next you will need a square piece of felt. Mine was around 6" square...
now you will start sewing the ruffle down to the felt in a circle...
this is what the back will look like..
trim off the corners but don't cut to close to the stitching because you need it to help stabilize the velcro when you sew it on...
now you're going to sew the posie onto one side of the belt....
now hook the belt buckles together so you can see where you need to sew the other piece of velcro...
because I had to sew the velcro out on the edge of the flower, the thread is showing...
so I fixed it with a little hot glue. ;)
Tada!
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